A 22-year-old Lathrop man told Manteca Police he was jumped by a gang of Hispanic individuals shortly after midnight on Sunday morning at the intersection of Center Street and Lincoln Avenue and stabbed five times.

Sixty years ago, on June 16, 1951, the inaugural games of the 1951 City Softball League season got under way here with both the YMI and the City Cash Market teams winning their games by identical scores. The YMI blasted the American Legion 15-1 and the City Cash Market measured the Lathrop team by the same score. In the first game, Pete Huarte handcuffed the Legion, allowing only three safeties, while this teammates, led by Jess Payan, blasted the Legion pitcher, Roy Platt, from the box in the fifth inning. Payan garnered three singles in four trips to the plate ...